Upgrading your Ubuntu-on-Windows install to the app version

by Chris Glass
in Ubuntu

tagged ubuntu

Our team and Microsoft released Ubuntu as a Windows app store application today!

Ubuntu in the Windows store

If you, like me, toyed with the "bash on Ubuntu on Windows" version before and would like to try the latest and greatest, read on!

Saving your data

If you "bash on ubuntu on windows" environment has some data you'd like to keep, make sure you back it up now. The uninstall process will nuke everything.

Uninstall the old way

This is relatively simple. Opening a command line (cmd.exe) terminal and typing

lxrun /uninstall

will destroy your previous environment.

Installing the new way

To find the app in the Microsoft store, just type "Ubuntu" in the search bar.

Click install. Voilà!